Disgusting anti consumer practices

carlos sousa4 · Jul 29, 2023

I can't play games from an external HD? Literally no reason other than greed on behalf of Microsoft. Your consoles have pitifully small HDs and become super slow before being even close to full. Literally downloaded a single game at over 60GB. One. Single. Game... Nowhere in the process was I informed I couldn't play from the external. So I wait hours for the download to complete, only to find out AFTER that isn't allowed, and I have to wait AGAIN to transfer to the internal HD. Nevermind this one single game will eat over 10% of the total space. I have been an Xbox member for well over a decade, but MS's continued anti-consumer practices have cemented my decision that this will be my last console generation. Have fun in your quest to milk every last penny from your customers, but I won't continue to take part after my console inevitably becomes a paperweight.

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ngocphi

As sword mentioned its on all consoles ps5 even you are talking speed differencea in SPADES

external hdd is behind 5 buses and only running at 500mbps

Vs 4.8gbps and direct access to d

CPU gpu and memory

Next gen games are designed to have direct access to memory and cpu and gpu

A limitation you can't get around with your 500mbps hdd

Rachet and clank rift apart on pc proved that as sword mentioned you can work around it

Smwutches

Series S/X games can only run from the internal drive or one of the available expansion cards. A regular hard drive can store them, but not run them. All other games can run fine from an external drive. It's due to the fact that a regular hard drive is not fast enough to run the games.

SigmaTheDJ

People still defending anti-consumer practices I see. *SIGH*

ryanf279

Blind sheep will support this X1 it is so anti consumer and anti developer its disgusting....The original crew that made XBOX was made by gamers and their gone now replaced by Fat cats who look at $$$$......Blind sheep who love to get it up the butt with
DRM,Anti consumer/developer will get this because they can't see past this image of what use to be xbox.

A Blue Illusion

People still defending anti-consumer practices I see. *SIGH*

Consumer: a person who buys goods and services

Anti: opposite to something - against someone or something - acting to prevent something

Anti-consumerism: a sociopolitical ideology that is opposed to consumerism, the continual buying and consuming of material possessions. Anti-consumerism is concerned with the private actions of business corporations in pursuit of financial and economic goals
at the expense of the public welfare, especially in matters of environmental protection, social stratification, and ethics in the governing of a society.

People still throwing inappropriate terms at a questionable (in their opinion) business practice in order to make it seem more 'evil' than it really is, I see. *SIGH*

Disgusting anti consumer practices